How to bind a string to hotkey?

Question

I want to quick paste some different strings using hotkeys. For example if I press Alt+L in any input form it works like if I pasted loremipsum. Or it may be some abbreviation, for example I enter li, press Tab and get loremipsum.

I'm using Linux Mint with KDE desktop.

In Windows I could do it using AutoHotkey

Answered here http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/38554/bind-strings-to-hotkey and here http://askubuntu.com/questions/280604/assign-hotkeys-to-paste-predefined-text — Pavel, Jan 04 '17 at 14:26
Please [don't cross-post to multiple stack exchange sites](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/is-cross-posting-a-question-on-multiple-stack-exchange-sites-permitted-if-the-qu). — Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007, Jan 04 '17 at 14:57
@Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007, can you help me with this http://meta.superuser.com/questions/12007/how-to-choose-a-community ? — Pavel, Jan 04 '17 at 15:05

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 04 '17 at 14:15

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Install xbindkeys and xvkbd

echo '"xvkbd -text loremipsum"
alt + l' >> ~/.xbindkeysrc

answered Jan 04 '17 at 14:15

Ipor Sircer

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Should I simple write this two lines in console after installing? – Pavel Jan 04 '17 at 14:32
Okay, it added two lines to file `.xbindkeysrc` in my home folder but prints `oremipsum` – Pavel Jan 04 '17 at 14:58

How to bind a string to hotkey?

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